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Gared

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Gared has been given to 227 babies in the U.S. since 1969. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1989, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Gared, 2022

1 in 677,000

Gared over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gared: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gared means

Gared is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Gared is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 227 boys were recorded with the name Gared between 1969 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1989; its best national rank was #3,874 in 1989.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gared?

Gared had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gared sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gared. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gareds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gared was born before 1992 — so the typical Gared is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
36.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
227
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 36.6% of all recorded uses (83).

Is Gared rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1989 (14)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,874
1989

Spellings of Gared

Gared is not the most common spelling — Gary is, with 47.4% against Gared's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Gared is used

Across 1910–2025, Gared was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gared has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gared around the world

Where Gared ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1969–1998
    #534
    in 1998

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Gared by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,874
1989
Peak year
1989
14 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
227
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gared

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Gared

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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